Sentence examples for convictions whose from inspiring English sources

Second, most crimes – as she notes – are committed by reoffenders, not the people without previous convictions whose records the bill plans to remove.

There are of course many reasons witchcraft trials sometimes spiraled out of control, but scholars generally agree that setting up a category of exceptional crimes permitted a vast expansion of convictions whose justice few would defend today.

James Carlyle was a mason by trade and, later, a small farmer, a man of profound Calvinist convictions whose character and way of life had a profound and lasting influence on his son.

Now finally we see the crux of Kotkin's interpretation: Stalin was a man acting out of deeply held ideological convictions whose actions are only understandable in these terms, not in terms of maximisation of personal power.

Wilbertine Berkley is one of hundreds of thousands of Floridians with past felony convictions whose voting rights are in peril.

"Many Michigan residents have religious convictions whose principles govern the conduct of their daily lives and inform their own viewpoints about marriage.

We know him as a man of conviction, whose principles include respecting others with whom he differs.

Her objective is to find the truth behind a conviction whose evidence was scarce and which put a teen-ager in prison for life.

Among the disappointed petitioners was Reed R. Prior, an Iowa man serving a life sentence for a drug conviction whose application had been pending for nearly five years.

The appeals court granted a writ of habeas corpus to an inmate, in custody for a 1990 assault conviction, whose sentence had been increased by an earlier conviction that he said was tainted by his lawyer's faulty performance.

Mr. Blair's critics grow apoplectic with his preachy calls on the British public to create a more just society, and a common complaint among his opponents is that he is a politician with no conviction whose principal interest is getting elected.